Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic who is a producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. In his music, he implements jazz, salsa, merengue, bachata, blues, Afro-pop, soukous (French, African origins), gospel music, etc. Some of his influences were the Beatles and heard bachata elements in songs such as “Till There Was You” and “If I Fell” and on “Till There Was You,” where it used bongos. He heard African musician, Papa Wemba playing with Peter Gabriel in NY. Guerra wrote his own lyrics to create “Vivir” song in the Fogaraté album and overall showed an influence of Afro-pop and soukous music. As well as bringing African guitarist Diblo Dibala and that is where he picked up the influence of soukous music. Moreover, he started to play the guitar when he was around 10 years old. Later on, attended the University of Santo Domingo with courses of Philosophy and History and realized his passion for music resulting to transfer into the Music Conservatory of Santo Domingo. During that time, he received a scholarship to Berklee College Of Music in Boston. He decided to complete his studies and learned composition and musical arrangement and graduated in 1982 along with…

80’s and 90’s the maracas were replaced by the güira scraper which is borrowed from Merengue. There were also 3 more additions to the lineup in the 80’s and 90’s. The two acoustic guitars were replaced with two acoustic electric guitars with electric guitar pickups installed into the sound hole, an electric bass was also added to the lineup along with the güira player playing a bass drum. The way that Bachata was viewed and the stigma surrounding its name started to lessen once the…

“It was because of your greed that all of this happened. You should’ve just sold the pearl or thrown it away.” I waited as Kino just stood there silently. “So be wise and don’t seek revenge on these men,” I continued. Kino sighed, “You are right, Juan Tomas.’’ Then, as we started to go back home, the pearl buyers came out of another room and told us to wait. Behind us, stood all three pearl buyers, looking really scared. “We are sorry for trying to cheat you,” they said to Kino. “Therefore, we…

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In the poem “Don Juan Canto One” by Lord Byron, the question can be asked of whether Don Juan is a funny piece like Byron says or if it is not a very funny piece like his publisher John Murray believes. The first canto can be divided into three parts. Part one is where Bryon describes Don Juan’s parents and their relationship. The second part Byron shows Don Juan at age sixteen and Don Juan sleeping with a married woman named Julia. The third and last part Byron shows the aftermath of Don…

Juanito, the boy that mimics the cherubic expressions of an angel, was fated to live a life of a pauper. Growing up, Juanito wasn’t granted the access of the love and affection other parents had over their children. It wasn’t that his parents didn’t love him, nor that he hated his parents, they were simply never there. If it weren’t for the current government that we live in today, Juanito would live a life of anarchy. He isn’t crazy, but for some unknown reason, he prefers to live in anarchy…

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skips classes, doesn’t do homework, and doesn’t study that is succeeding. Camus may suggest that we do not need the education to live a good life. He may suggest we should just stick to what we already know. However, studies show that individuals with college degrees earn significantly more income in their lifetime than those who do not; it would be extremely difficult to live freely as Camus suggests without money. Additionally, what if we felt like doing bad things? Again, Camus would suggest…

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a man who made the musical Evita to keep her legacy alive long after her death. Although he does this, he knows that Evita and her husband Juan Peron were people of questionable pasts. I agree with Webber that both of them should be relished for what they did in helping Argentina, but their pasts are nothing to be proud of. People should take caution to putting these two as ideal model figures. Maria Eva Duarte, otherwise known as Evita, and Juan Peron were two of the most…